"Landie" or Harry

I heard about this place on The Grapevine, namingly through Northern_Ninja. The Milton Keynes Leisure Plaza was built in 1990 and housed a Bowling Alley (Megabowl), an Ice Rink (Planet Ice, formally Bladerunner), an Argos and a Homebase store and a Nightclub (The Empire, formally Flamingos).

The nightclub closed in 2004 and has set ever since. The Bowling Alley and Ice Rink closed this summer for re-development. It appears the ice rink is being left, but everything else here is being demolished. The Leisure Plaza has been through a lot of changes in the last 23 years but has slowly diminished and development is necessary.

28DL Full Member

Great to see. I was at the opening night when the club changed to the Empire. From memory Alexander O'Neill played live! Like the tiles in the toilets - First Leisure Group (the owners at the time) put the tiles up crooked to make the happy drinkers feel like they were a bit happier! The same was true of Lexington Avenue (also a First Leisure nightclub) in Hull now demolished.

"Landie" or Harry

Major bump but thank you! In a way that's what it's all about, not Only exploring and seeing amazing places and documenting them, but invoking other people's memories. It's always nice. When was this? Mid 90s? The place shut in 2004